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Ispent the evening after November 5 on YouTube. The site was full of time-compressed videos that tracked news media icons and Hollywood celebrities as election night wore on. The clips were mesmerizing. It was like watching a Carnival Cruise ship gradually sink. Passengers went from champagne to life jackets in just six hours. Jimmy Kimmel, Rachel Maddow, the always unpleasant Joy Reid, and so many others found themselves trapped in a Greek tragedy, with the bill for their jumbo helping of hubris suddenly due.
How did it happen? The reasons, as the emotionally battered luminaries said, were legion: misogyny, racism, and transphobia from America’s uneducated, sex-reactionary masses. And the pain was made even worse by bitter treason on the part of Latinos, blacks, and women. Over at Fox News, the analysis was rather different: An elitist Democratic party had vastly misread the real needs of the public. And Trump Ascendant had well and truly crushed the woke left.
Others have danced on the grave of this year’s Democratic party fiasco. The gloating will be brief; 2026 is right around the corner. And it’s not my purpose here. My concern is religious. Those of us with normal lives to pursue, mouths to feed, and bills to pay might earnestly wish woke ideology to be dead and buried. But like Nosferatu or a bad case of shingles, it will keep coming back, because—in its essence—it isn’t a purely “political” creature at all.
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How did it happen? The reasons, as the emotionally battered luminaries said, were legion: misogyny, racism, and transphobia from America’s uneducated, sex-reactionary masses. And the pain was made even worse by bitter treason on the part of Latinos, blacks, and women. Over at Fox News, the analysis was rather different: An elitist Democratic party had vastly misread the real needs of the public. And Trump Ascendant had well and truly crushed the woke left.
Others have danced on the grave of this year’s Democratic party fiasco. The gloating will be brief; 2026 is right around the corner. And it’s not my purpose here. My concern is religious. Those of us with normal lives to pursue, mouths to feed, and bills to pay might earnestly wish woke ideology to be dead and buried. But like Nosferatu or a bad case of shingles, it will keep coming back, because—in its essence—it isn’t a purely “political” creature at all.
Continued below.
Woke Ideology Is Not Dead and Buried | Francis X. Maier
The return of Donald Trump may pump the brakes on some of the nastier momentum in our culture, but changing its basic direction is a much bigger, and arguably less likely, task.
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